Clifford Chance
Ash Masrani is an associate on our Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team. She focuses on strategic technology and commercial transactions across industry sectors, with a keen emphasis on strategic outsourcings and digital transformation initiatives.
Ash excels in guiding clients through the lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring deals and provider selection to negotiations, contract execution and post-contract management.
Ash holds extensive experience in advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; branding agreements, reseller agreements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions.
- Advised a large US-based financial institution on the strategy to build and operate a captive offshore outsourcing services center in India.
- Representing a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider in a major mainframe outsourcing, beginning at the RFP stage.
- Advised life insurance company on IT outsourcing transaction.*
- Advised global systemically important financial institutions and other large financial services firms on digital transformation initiatives, including negotiating multi-year transactions with global service providers.*
- Represented asset management firm in the negotiation and implementation of technology and managed service agreements to support day-1 operations.*
- Represented financial services, retail and wholesale clients in business process outsourcing transactions related to human resources functions, payroll, recruiting, and finance and accounting functions.*
- Drafted form SaaS, on-premise software licensing, and professional services agreements for a premier national bank and presented a corresponding week-long training on contracting and vendor management best practices to the client’s legal, procurement, risk management, and business teams.*
- Experience prior to joining Clifford Chance.
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Washington D.C.
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- Speaks English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati
Career and qualifications
- The New School (BA), 2015
- Duke University School of Law (JD), 2019
- Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in District of Columbia (2020)
- Joined Clifford Chance as Associate in 2023
Awards and citations
- Named as a Rising Star in 2024 by Legal 500